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Monday, 5 December 2016

When time is short I need to get creative with the time and resources available ... these two cards are made using the rest of the panel that I created for my earlier card. Rather than creating another card of the same design I realised by cutting the panel smaller I could create two cards!Here they are:

Full details of how I created the panel and the resources I used can be found in my earlier post from today. This time I matted the panel onto some black card and heat embossed the sentiment on black card.

Time is running too fast for me at the moment ... Christmas Day is a mere 20 days away and I still haven't made enough cards, I'm also frantically knitting jumpers and scarves for presents!!I created this card using one of my favourite techniques - emboss resist.

I heat embossed the poinsettia onto a panel of card and then blended red and yellow distress inks over the whole of the panel. I die cut a rectangle and frame from the panel, added a sentiment heat embossed onto some vellum. The frame is adhered flat to the card base and the central panel has a piece of fun foam behind it to add a little dimension.I used:UNIKO - Pure Florals: PoinsettiaSTAMPlorations - Christmas Bell MedleyDistress Inks - Festive Berries and Squeezed lemonade.Lawn Fawn Stitched RectanglesWOW White embossing PowderI'm entering the following challenges:"Less is More" #305 - colour challenge - use at least one primary colourHappy Little Stampers CAS Challenge

TIME OUT Challenge #71 - Christmas with the optional twist of glitter/shimmerEnjoy!

Sunday, 20 November 2016

Words have escaped me this morning ... so I will spare you from my drivel and get straight down to business!!Another Christmas card!

I was lucky enough to win a challenge at UNIKO and could choose a stamp set - a difficult choice to make when there are so many brilliantly design sets to choose between. So it seemed fitting to use the stamp set for the new challenge at UNIKO - the theme is Christmas which fits nicely with my need to get my cards finished!!I drew a circle lightly in pencil and then stamped the holly leaves and berries. I masked off the leaves before stamping and heat embossing the fir leaves. Stamped the sentiment and popped it on with foam adhesive. I edged the panel with distress ink (very subtle!) before mounting the panel with fun foam to the card base.I used:UNIKO: Winter Foliage Stamp SetDistress INks - Festive Berries, Pine NeedlesWOW Gold Embossing PowderI'm entering the following challenges:UNIKO #36

Saturday, 19 November 2016

It is rare that I manage to post three times in one day ... but, providing I write quickly, today is one of those occasions. I've been lucky enough to spend most of the day crafting! This will be the last for today:

I used multiple stamp sets to stamp the thanks/thank you band across the card base before die cutting "Thanks". I also die cut the letters from some black card to add depth to the letters before stacking them together and placing them back into the gaps.

After an hour of stamping and heat embossing (see my earlier post) it was time for something with more colour and one of my favourite winter flowers!

Simple design with a lot of colour. I stamped the poinsettia and the die cut the centre and coloured only the part of the flower in the circle. I added some red fun foam behind the circle and adhered it to the card. Stamped the sentiment and that was it.I used:UNIKO Pure Florals: PoinsettisVersafine onyx black inkZig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Good afternoon! It's a chilly day in the UK ... I guess winter is already here!If you are a regular visitor to my blog you will know that I am behind with creating my Christmas cards and keep trying to find a design that I can replicate easily - last week I had some success but I do get easily bored making the same design over and over again!! So this morning I started the quest again ... today's card is inspired by the challenge over at "Less is More" where the theme is 'Vintage'. As I'm pretty vintage myself I thought about cards that I received years ago ... my overriding memory is of glitter and I don't do glitter so I had to start again.This is the card ... or I should say cards!

I began with a panel of kraft card and heat embossed the sleigh stamp and sentiment with gold embossing powder. On the card based I stamped the snowflakes with versamark ink to give the tone on tone effect. I popped the stamped image onto the base with a smaller piece of fun foam.I also made two others:

About Me

My name is Elaine and I am a part time crafter - unfortunately I cannot afford to be a full time crafter! I create with textiles, enjoy knitting, sewing, cross stitch and embroidery. I also enjoy paper crafts and try to make all my own cards.